I just heard the NDP spokesman on Mike Duffy Live (CTV Newsnet) reiterate this information. The Liberal spokesman, John (“I agree, they’ll spend it on beer and popcorn”) Duffy (yes, that’s the one who host Mike Duffy said tried to intimidate him into not showing the Liberal attack ad the party earlier withdrew) said he knew nothing about it, and that he’d look into it.
(Hat tip to Ross M.)
Minister of Health Ujjal Dosanjh Vancouver MP raised bulk of his funds in Ontario in 2004.
By Will McMartin and Sam Cooper
Published: January 12, 2006
TheTyee.caUjjal Dosanjh received $16,000 in campaign donations from two Ontario families involved in health-service companies when he was seeking election to the House of Commons in 2004. Six weeks later, he was named health minister in Paul Martin’s Liberal government.
One of those companies advertises itself as being able to “fast track” care for injured people, providing a service to employers by returning their workers to the job more quickly than would the standard care offered by the public health system. An executive from the firm told The Tyee the chain of clinics has arrived at a way “to do business at a new level.”
[…] War chest filled in Ontario
Dosanjh, a former NDP premier of British Columbia, raised more than two-thirds of his campaign funds in Ontario in 2004. Out of nearly $107,000 in reportable donations, the Vancouver South MP collected nearly $48,000 from Ontario residents and another $25,000 from businesses in that province.
Before returning to Canada a few years ago, Artaj Singh worked as director of health care investments development with the Key Bank in Cleveland, Ohio for a decade. A graduate of Hamilton’s McMaster University, he now is the president of Fort Erie Urgent Care Inc. in Fort Erie, Ontario, and Falls Urgent Care Inc. in Niagara Falls.
The two clinics are part of a corporate network of more than a dozen ambulatory centres in the United States and Canada.
Singh was called to comment on the nature of his clinics’ business and services, and of his connections to Dosanjh, but directed calls on to his clinical services director Tim Windsor.
“The federal health minister is a personal friend of Dr. Singh’s brother,” Windsor said, explaining that Ujjal Dosanjh recently met with Singh on a visit through Ontario.
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